Description
the bucket bowl engraved with open rose head flanked by open and closed buds, the reverse with displayed thistle, engraved above 'SUCCESS TO THE SOCIETY', raised on a multi-enamel twist stem and circular foot
Dimensions
15cm high
Footnote
Provenance: Private collection of G. S. May Esquire
Note: Although the exact Society referenced on this glass has not been determined it appears to fall within a small group of Society's glasses known. Others similar by the same hand are recorded with mottos such as 'Health To All True Blues' and 'The Friendly Hunt'. There is no doubt that the Society is pro Jacobite and it is considered by the addition of the thistle that it is likely this society was Scottish based. For a glass from the same set see 'The Jacobite and Their Drinking Glasses' G. B. Seddon plate 88, page 124.